Holder for blank cartridges.



Patented Aug. l2, I902.

M. J. SHIMER.

HOLDER FUR BLANK CARTRIDGES.

(Appliation filed June 3, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE,

HOLDER F' OR BLANK CARTRIDGES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 707,026, dated August 12, 1902.

Application filed June 3,1902. Serial No. 110,076. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MILTON J. SHIMER, a citizenof the United States, and a resident of Freemansburg, in the county of Northampton and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Holderfor Blank Oartridges, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to aholder for blank cartridges which may constitute a portion of a cane, pistol, cannon, or other support, be ing adapted to retain a blank cartridge in position to be exploded by contact with any suitable near-by object. j

The purpose of the invention is to construct such an article in a durable and economic manner and of few parts and so that the clamping-sections of the device will consist of a fixed and an opposing spring-controlled movablejaw capable of being readily and conveniently manipulated to receive or to discharge a cartridge-shell or an equivalent of the same, and, further, to provide means .for

the ready escape of the products of the explosion.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is 'a side elevation of a holder applied to a cane, showing the movable jaw in front elevation. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the holder and a portion of its support, showing the movable jaw in side elevation. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section through theholder and a portion of its support and a side eleva: tion of the cartridge-shell just released from the holder. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the movable jaw of the holder, and Fig. 5 is a transverse section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 3.

The device particularly consists of four parts-a body comprising two sections A and B, one of said sections having an integral jaw C, a movable spring-controlled jaw D, pivoted in the body and having movement to and from the fixed jaw, and a connecting pin or' rivet E for the sections of the body.

Each section A and B of the body is semicircular in cross-section, and each body-section is solid at its lower portion, as shown at 10 and 11 in Figs. 3 and 5. Above the solid portions 10 and 11 of the body each section is provided with a chamber 12, open at the inner faces ofthe sections, so that when the said inner faces of the body-sections, which are flat, are brought together .an inner-end circular socket-chamber is formed, as shown in Fig. 3, in which an end of a cane 13 or other support may be forced and secured, if required.

At the outer endof the body-section B the jaw C is integrally formed. This jaw is tapering, being smallest at its loweror outer end, and is provided with a longitudinal concaved channel 14 in its inner face, which connects with a convexed segmental channel 15, likewise in the inner face of said jaw O,where the jaw connects with the body-section B.

Alongitudinal opening 16 is made in the lower solid portion 10 of the body-section A, extending through its lower edge and from its enter to itsiuner faces, and about midway between the ends of the longitudinal opening or slot 16 a semicircular transverse channel 17 is made in the inner face of the body-section A, which when the sections are brought together registers with a corresponding channel 18 in the inner face of the body-section B. The slot 16 and the transverse channels 17 and 18 of the body are adapted to receive the pivoted jaw D referred to, and when the pivoted jaw is in position its lower or clamping portion is opposed to the fixed jaw O. The pivotedjaw D is shown in detail in Fig. 4., and consists of a body portion 19 of suificient depth from front to rear to extend out beyond the body-section A when in position therein, as is shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The body-section 19 of the pivoted or movable jaw D is provided nearits upper end with an inwardly extending lug 20, which receives aspring 21, and when the jaw O is in the slot 16 of the body-sectionA the spring 21 bears against the inner face of the body-section B, as is shown in Fig. 3, and a transverse knuckle 22 near the longitudinal central portion of the inner edge of the jawD enters and turns in the transverse channels 17 and 18 of the bodysections A and B, as is best shown in Fig. 5. The inner edge of the jaw I) above and below the knuckle 22 is more or less rounded to facilitate the rocking movement of the jaw,and the clampingsection 23 of the jawD, orthat portion which is opposed to the fixed jaw 0,

is of similar formation to the fixedjaw,being externally taperingand provided'in its inner fiat face with a longitudinal concaved channel 24:, meeting an upper concaved transverse channel 25. After the pivoted or movable jaw B is placed in position in the body-section A the two body-sections are'brought together and are secured by the connecting pin or rivet E,which is passed through the upper solid portions of the body-sections just below the upper socket-chamber therein, and as the two jaws are brought together the transverse'channels 15 and 25 therein form an opening extending through from side to sideof the device for the exit of. smoke, powder, 8 0., consequent upon the explosion of the cartridge. When the cartridge-shell is to be placed between the two jaws, the upper end of the movable jaw is pressed inward, coinpressing the spring 21, and the cartridge-shell is then received within the longitudinal channels 14 and 24 of the jaws, as is shown-in Fig. 2, the flangeof the shell being below the jaws, and the action of the spring 21 will be sufficient to retain the cartridge-shell in its position.,, After the car claim as newand desire to secure-by Letters Patent 1. A cartridge-holder, consisting of, a body having a fixed jaw and a spring-controlled pivotally -'mounted opposing jaw, the jaws having opposing longitudinal channels in their inner faces for the reception of a car posed to the fixed jaw and provided with longitudinal and transverse channels in its inner face, a spring having bearing against the upper end of the. movable jaw and against a section of the body, and means, substantially as described, for connecting the sections of the 1 body, as set forth.

In testimonywhereof I have signed my name to this specification-in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MILTON J. SHIMER.

Witnesses:

WM. J. Buss, HARRY MIKSCH. 

